Lack of association between right-to-left shunt and cerebral ischemia after adjustment for gender and age

Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Poppert, Holger ^a   Morschhaeuser, Melanie ^a   Feurer, Regina ^a   Bockelbrink, Angelina ^b   Schwarze, Jens ^c   Esposito, Lorena ^a   Heider, Peter ^a   Sander, Dirk ^d   Hemmer, Bernhard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM CHEMNITZ   (Germany)

^d Neurologische Klinik Medical Park Loipl   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FORAMEN OVALE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCREENING TEST; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VALSALVA MANEUVER; AGE; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 55349094671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14775751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-5751-7-7     Document Type: Article

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